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6 August 1997 (USA) moreTagline:
They were worshipped as national saints. Hated as traitors. Their marriage spanned from the worst kind of betrayal to the greatest love...Plot:
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English... more | add synopsisAwards:
9 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Brilliant more (6 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Max von Sydow | ... | Knut Hamsun |
 | Ghita Nørby | ... | Marie Hamsun |
 | Anette Hoff | ... | Ellinor Hamsun |
| Gard B. Eidsvold | ... | Arild Hamsun (as Gard Eidsvold) |
| Eindride Eidsvold | ... | Tore Hamsun |
| Åsa Söderling | ... | Cecilia Hamsun |
| Sverre Anker Ousdal | ... | Vidkun Quisling |
| Erik Hivju | ... | Dr. Gabriel Langfeldt |
| Edgar Selge | ... | Terboven |
| Ernst Jacobi | ... | Adolf Hitler |
| Svein Erik Brodal | ... | Holmboe |
| Per Jansen | ... | Harald Grieg |
 | Jesper Christensen | ... | Otto Dietrich |
| Johannes Joner | ... | Finn Christensen |
| Finn Schau | ... | Doctor |
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One of the elements that make this film one of the most fascinating ever made is the use of language... while Knut and Marie Hamsun were Norwegians, Max von Sydow and Ghita Nørby speak Swedish and Danish respectively throughout the movie. To those not well-versed in Scandinavian languages, there is a very big difference. Most Swedes cannot understand more than 20% of spoken Danish and perhaps 60% of Norwegian. To make the comparison easier to grasp, imagine a Spanish movie where the main characters speak Portuguese and Italian. I don't know why this linguistic device was used, but the effect is remarkable. At first I figured it was a way to distance Norwegians from the main characters whom were regarded as traitors, but that theory doesn't hold since the character who plays Quisling (the man who "sold" Nazism to many Norwegians) speaks Norwegian throughout the film.
Trivia: throughout Scandinavia the name "Quisling" is not just synonymous with "back-stabber"... it has actually become a commonplace word and is found in most dictionaries. It is comparative to the phrase "his name is Mudd" in the U.S.